An affiliate program can be a powerful marketing tool. It may even be THE MOST powerful weapon for the majority of web sites.

Over half of our subscribers (and sales) here at http://GreenMountainMoney.com are due to affiliate links.

Looking at my Green Mountains money stats for the last 22 days, 68% of the members here came through affiliate's efforts.

This is a big number, especially when you consider the fact that I place quite a few ads for this site in Ezines and elsewhere.

I'm going to let you in on the secret of who is doing all the selling.

Not specific names, (Don't want to loose my best affiliates). You will have to get your own Best Affiliates. :-)

I will show you what the top affiliates do, how they do it, when they do it, and why they promote a site or a product.

This will give you a good idea of what you need to do to sign up your own super affiliates.

First, let me tell you that about the old 80-20 rule:

This rule states that 80% of your annual sales come from 20% of your sales force (your affiliates)

Top affiliates will consistently outsell all other affiliates in any given program combined.

If you count the affiliates for GreenMountainMoney.com (numbering into the mid hundreds), The majority of income comes from a very small percentage of affiliates(aprox 20%)

80 + percent of affiliates never send me a single new member.

The rest of my affiliates combined produce less income than the top 1%.

So who are these top 1% affiliates?

All of them for fall into one of two categories...

1. Large Opt-In Email Publishers such as Ezines

2. Product Developers i.e. software developers, utility developers ect.

Many of them would qualify as both.

Opt-in Ezine publishers send out endorsement ads for the program along with publishing